“Dr. Farhad feels the glaring eyes of one of the machine-gun-toting
officers on him and smiles bitterly at his fate. ... This selfless
doctor, even at this daunting moment of peripeteia, is worried about
the critical condition of one of his poor patients whom he is
scheduled to operate on tomorrow. “
Shahriar Mandanipour, translated by Sara Khalili; Censoring an Iranian
Love Story; Knopf; 2009.